Lot 70

Carl Meyer, Trittau

An interesting and elegant seconds precision regulator with regulator dial - enclosed a stone billboard and two sales books of the years 1877-1887 and 1902-1929

An engraved inscription on the back of the dial reads: "The clock made by Carl Meyer, Trittau. 1868" and thus leads us into the youthful years of an otherwise rather unknown North German clockmaker. Three short advertisements in the Deutsche Uhrmacher-Zeitung inform us that Carl Meyer was born in 1848 and died in 1933, after having a clock store in Trittau for over 60 years. Thus, the present pendulum clock could have been his masterpiece and was used as a business clock, as suggested by Jürgen Ermert in volume 6 of his series on precision pendulum clocks. There, this clock is illustrated on pages 428f and described in detail as a somewhat off the beaten track of the metropolitan mainstream, but quite solidly made; a pendulum clock with hints of English clockmaking in the case and dial, which were no longer very common at that time. Nevertheless, the chatoned movement, the Graham anchor with the inlaid sapphires and the elegant case testify the ambition of the young clockmaker, who at least succeeded in being mentioned in Ermert's Volume 6 of his series on precision pendulum clocks.